Evil Quotes

The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred.

We need to laugh at the irrationality of evil, for in doing so we deny evil's power over us, diminish its influence in the world, and tarnish the allure it has for some people.

Evil…doesn’t mean doing things that have bad consequences for people. It means private thoughts and actions that are not to “the Christian majority’s” private liking.

Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.

I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death.

A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil necessity.

As a parent, I want my kids to have an optimistic outlook, and one that has hope, and that makes sense, where good does triumph over evil and it's not cynical, and it's not snarky.

All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.

We cannot freely and wisely choose the right way for ourselves unless we know both good and evil.

It is said that government is a necessary evil, but it is far more evil than it is necessary.

good is too often allied with vulnerability and evil with power.

Every human being has a fascinating existence, with a big cast of good and evil characters in each. And almost always, somewhere along the way, magic.

PRACTICE THE Art of Peace sincerely, and evil thoughts and deeds will naturally disappear. The only desire that should remain is the thirst for more and more training in the Way.

Drugs are nihilistic: they undermine all values and radically overturn all our ideas about good and evil, what is just and what is unjust, what is permitted and what is forbidden.

Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.

I whistled. "You have evil thoughts for a goat.

Good and evil thoughts are each a potent power, and they fill the universe.

How can you hope to recognize good and evil for what they truly are if you have no belief in a moral authority greater than yourself?

Power is not happiness.

There is evil in the world, but it can be overcome through repentance ­and aspiration, and therein lies the true meaning and adventure of life.

We must break the evil habit of ignoring the spiritual. We must shift our interest from the seen to the unseen.

A low view of God is the cause of a hundred lesser evils. A high view of God is the solution to ten thousand temporal problems.

The difference being that in films, unlike in life, good does always win over evil in the end.

The world is not full of evil because of those who do wrong. It is full of evil because of those who do nothing.

The world is an evil place to live in. Not for those who do evil, but for those who sit back and allow evil to occur.

O heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath: guard them from all evil and let them sleep in peace.

Science in itself is morally neutral; it becomes good or evil according as it is applied.

You can't dispute the ridiculous. You can't argue reasonably with evil.

You hate evil, but you don't hate the people that do evil. So, hate has to go out the window.

We generally get the evil we expect.

The key question isn't 'What is Evil?' The key question is 'When does the Good become Evil?

Evil is maybe lying to God. Or better, lying to love.

But even in a telephone booth evil can seep out of the receiver and we must cover it with a mattress, and then tear it from its roots and bury it, bury it.

We're not all evil or all good, and we all make mistakes to one degree or another.

I think I'm close to lot of people in Bollywood, but I believe in evil eye, and I feel when I talk about friendships and relationships in public something somewhere goes wrong with it.

Happiness of any given life is to be measured, not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering-from positive evil.

Where there is a choice of two evils, most men take both.

Shame is the turnkey that keeps our evil desires in jail.

The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind.

There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.

Speak no evil, that thou mayest not hear it spoken unto thee, and magnify not the faults of others that thine own faults may not appear great.

I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man's life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.

Evil, as evil, can never be chosen; and though evil is often the effect of our own choice, yet we never desire it but under the appearance of an imaginary good.

The difficulty is old, but none the less real. An omnipotent being who created a world containing evil not due to sin must Himself be at least partially evil.

Why can't God just defeat the devil and get rid of evil? It's the same reason the comic book character can't get rid of his nemesis; then there's no story.

You either fight active evil or you accept it. Doing nothing is acceptance. There is no in-between.

With only one thing in common, they got the fire down below.

The principle of recognition of evil under all its guises is at the basis of the true education of man.

So, there I was, tied to an altar made from outdated encyclopedias, about to get sacrificed to the dark powers by a cult of evil Librarians.

It is only when people can feel that their lives and the property which their industry has produced today will continue to be safe...that there can be...stability of value and...economic progress.